Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-07-21
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novels.
General Stevenson, OF Illinois, was
the founder of the Grand Army of the
Republic
Count Tolstoi, the Russian novelist,
is an expert shoemaker and mends
his own dlothes.
The musical prodigy of Dakota is
said to be little 4-year-old Blanche
Kramer of Valley City.
Queen Margaret of Italy has estab-
lished an asylum for the blind in the
Baths of Diocletian at Rome.
George Bancroft, the historian, never
fails to pass an early hour of the warm
weather among his rose bushes.
A woman who counts her children
to the number of twenty-eight has been
pensioned by the Mexican government.
''The Great-Chief-without-a-Scalp" is
the title given to the Prince of Wales
by the Indians of the Cody band in
London.
Baroness Burdette-Coutts is large
purchaser of American buckwheat
which is canned ready for the griddle
for the London market.
The Hebrew population of Jerusalem
is increasing. 1t is now $1,000, the
largest number since Titus destroyed
the sacred city, A. D. 20.
A Vermont Qll.) farmer planted q
sunf1ower seed to each hill of beans.
The stalk serves for a pole while the
seed makes excellent chicken-feed
The Marquise de Mores, who used to
be Miss Hutton and is now the wife OF
the marquise of cowboy fame, is a
talented artist in black and white
Lafcadio Hearn. of the New Orleans
It2aes-De7nocrGt, has removed to New
York to engage in literary work that
will take him to the West Indies.
Mrs. J. Wells Champney, wife of the
artist and author of Three Vassar
Girls, is among the most enthusiastic
of the New York Photographic guild.
Justice Lopez, one of the leading En-
glish judges, was lassoed by a three
year-old papoose while strollino
through Buffalo Bills show in Lon
don.
Rev. Mr.. Tong, q Chinese Baptist
preacher, delivers exhortations in front
OF large pagan temple in Chinatown,
San Francisco, every Sunday after
noon.
A calf near Oxford, Fla, had two
splits in one ear and an underbit in the
other at its birth, and the eyes and
horns in the place where only the eyes
should be.
There are 49, 39 old soldiers regis
tered on the Grand Army of the Re
public books of Kansas. One thousand
names have been added during the
last three months.
A North Carolina clergyman not
only refused to marry an clipping
couple, but arrested the bride and
telegraphed her father that he held her
subject to his orders.
Prince Bismarck's two sons are two
of the hardest workers in Germany.
They begin regularly at in the morn
inc and often remain at their labors
until far into the night.
Edward Everett Hale told the
students of Cornell that the best OPP
portunity Of studying human nature
was to be had by entering the pro-
fession of the schoOlmaster
A Vermont boy learned to make
cider brandy III his mothers teapot
from the information concerning the
physiological effect of alcohol con-
tanned in one of his obligatory text
books.
A little girl of Panthersyille, Ca.
cave Young rabbit to her cat and her
kitten. Instead of making their din
ner off of it the cat adopted it as one
of her kittens and seems to think as
much of it.
Many American ladies in London are
said 20 be unable to find ready-made
shoes there small enough to fit them,
the average of the American being
greatly below the average English foot
in size.
Miss Minnie Hershey, employed on
the Falls City (Neb.) Neo0s, is said to
be the fastest compositor in the state.
The editor of the NeUS offers to back
her against any man in the state i'll a
type-setting match.
Deacon George White of Seymour,
Ind, has been expelled from the church
1Of uecIaI1ng MS DolleI thaG the WOflu
is 100000 years old and that it is like
" to stand for another before the
judgment day comes.
Andrew Carnegie's furnaces at Pitts
burg are said TO make as much iron per
year as was made in the entire country
in 1861. Pittsburg claims to have the
largest steel-melting establishment in
the world. The city melts 500 tons per
day.
Lord Salisbury remarked at the re-
cent Royal Academy banquet that he
could not call to mind a single statue
of man attired in a 'sclaw-hammer"
coat, and @. A. Sala adds that he
wishes some sculptor would try the
experiment.
Denis Ryan, of St. Paul, is said to be
worth at least $7,0O0,000, although a !
dozen years ago he could not call $500
in cash his own. 1t is said in his honor
that since fortune smiled upon him he |
has not forgotten the friends of his
struggling days.
There is lady in Penola, Ga, who |